Note to Reviewers:

Although this, at first glance, must seem an awfully busy page, I hope the structure will help you make sense of it. The names (and a brief description) of each lesson is in the first column. Please see the legend below for the lessons that are ready to be reviewed. To access the lesson itself, click on the word "here" under the lesson description in the first column. This will take you to another page that only has the lesson on it.

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Usha
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Specific Challenge + topic (in bold)	Portal Concept	Core competency / transferrable thinking	Catalyst	Thinking Strategies	Final product (if applicable)
Infer the relative importance of water to Africa vs. North America from photographs	Geographic Importance (Jennifer Cordon? Usha James? Laura Gini-Newman?)	Determine the relative importance of an issue for different regions.	Photographs
Where does truth lie? Examine 4 different maps of the same city. Determine the implied importance of various features. Click here to access the lesson	Geographic Importance (Bob Sharpe / Usha James)	Infer importance assigned by cartographer when examining maps	Maps	- Observation and inference chart - Assessing inferences - Assessing titless	Titles of maps
Rate features according to their political, social, environmental, and economic importance (see Anthology – pg. 111-112)	Geographic Importance (Bob Sharpe / Usha James)	Determine the most notable features of a region to highlight.			Report Card?
Have You Convinced Me? Assess the arguments from the documentary "The 11th Hour" re: Climate Change to decide how convincing they are. Click here to access the lesson	Evidence and Interpretation (Amber Mitchell)	Determine whether claims are warranted / what is the most powerful claim made	Documentary Film	- Determining Evidence vs. Conclusion - Assessing conclusions	Tagline for a film
Where do these countries belong? Create a profile of a mystery country based on a set of statistics. Click here to access the lesson	Evidence and Interpretation (Jennifer Cordon)	Interpret statistical tables	Statistics	- Evidence and Inference - Assessing inferences - Generating inferences from Statistics	Country profile / presentation?
?	Evidence and Interpretation (Bob Sharpe / Usha James)	Decode distortions created by various mapping decisions	maps
Which photograph captures what it's like? Select the photograph that best represents a particular region of Canada Click here to access the lesson	Sense of Place (Jane Kerr-Wilson, Amber Mitchell, Amy Parsons)	Evaluate whether something captures a sense of place	Photograph	- Looking for details - R.A.N. chart - Consolidating findings web - Assessing photographs
Create a convincing promotional campaign to attract a specific group of immigrants to a particular Canadian City	Sense of Place (Jennifer Cordon, Barbara Tanton)	Make inferences from photographs, text, etc. OR See a place from another person's perspective?	text, photographs,		promotional campaign - website? brochure? multifaceted? differentiated assessment options?
Speculate on the rest of the pattern Infer patterns of a partial chloropeth map and speculate on the rest of the pattern – Global patterns re: quality of life Click here to access the lesson	Patterns and Trends (Jane Kerr-Wilson, Amy Parsons, Amber Mitchell)	Inferring patterns/trends from a map	maps	- Articulating and inferring the pattern -
G8 Summit - Where next in Canada? Determine the criteria used by host countries to decide on the location of the G8 summits. Click here to access the lesson	Patterns and Trends (Mike Fitzgerald)	Infer a pattern re: appropriateness of location for an event	text, statistics	- Advantages and disadvantages of a location - Preparing for inquiry - Assessing locations	Letter to the editor?
Canada's worst natural disaster Assess the relative impact of various Canadian natural disasters. Click here to access the lesson	Interactions and Associations (Jane Kerr-Wilson, Amber Mitchell, Amy Parsons)	Determine the most significant impact	Hollywood movies, research	- Assessing the impact	Write a proposal (to Guiness Book of World Records re: your chosen natural disaster)
Create a map from an aerial photograph, determine opportunities to improve sustainability; rework the map to include suggestions to enhance sustainability	Interactions and Associations (Amber Mitchell) - could move this to evidence and interpretation	Determine opportunities to improve sustainability and suggest ways to improve	aerial photographs		Create a map from an aerial photograph and then rework the map.
To burn or not to burn? (Parks Canada lesson) Decide whether or not a forest fire should be allowed to burn or be extinguished Click here to access the lesson	Interactions and Associations (Susan Staple – Parks Canada)	Determine the desired level of human intervention into natural forces	maps, weather reports, text
Select the 5 most significant issues facing the Great Lakes	Interactions and Associations (Michelle Finn)	Weigh the most significant issues	Text?
Determine which political cartoon regarding Fair Trade is most compelling.	Geographic Value Judgements (Amber Mitchell)	Judging the effectiveness of a representations	political cartoons
Whose voice needs to be heard? Select the most important stakeholders that need to be brought to the table to resolve the issues presented in The Lorax (Dr. Seuss) and anticipate their positions. Topic = environment vs. economy, resource management, etc. Click here to access the lesson	Geographic Value Judgements (Amy Parsons, Jane Kerr-Wilson, Amber Mitchell)	Determine the important stakeholders and infer their positions	Children's Fiction	- Comparing stakeholder interests - Who are the key stakeholders
Global Energy Project (Alberta Oil Sands): Which argument is most compelling? Determine which argument (shut it down, continue, continue with changes) is most compelling.	Geographic Value Judgements (Lisa Nellipuzha)	Determine whether a proposal/project balances the needs of the environment vs. economy; determine which argument (shut it down, continue, continue with changes) is most compelling.	text on websites, news articles, activists' vs. industry's reports, etc.
Given limited resources, select the gift(s) from the World Vision Catalogue that will have the greatest positive impact on quality of life in the developing world.	Geographic Value Judgements (Mike Fitzgerald, Lisa Nellipuzha) - Note: pull together background information sheets re: quality of life from CIDA online?	Choose the action with the greatest positive impact	research, text